He witnesses a hatching event which almost goes horribly wrong, but none the less agrees in the end to bear T'Gatoi's children. The narrator of the story is Gan, a young human whose family has been "adopted" by T'Gatoi, a leading Tlic. The Tlic have moved from a period of time when humans were basically kept as brood animals for the eggs, to a social system of adopting humans into their family with any luck, the newly hatched larvae can be removed from their human host before too much damage is caused. Fortunately for the Tlic, humans also live on the planet and are ideal hosts for their eggs. However the mammal-like animals native to the Tlic world have evolved a natural defence which poisons the eggs before they hatch. The story is set on a world dominated by the insect-like Tlic, whose reproduction system includes laying eggs inside a living host the larvae then hatch and eat their way out. My mother was at her most formal and severe when she was lying.When I last read it in May 2001, I wrote: It was an honor, my mother said, that such a person had chosen to come into the family. When I was little and at home more, my mother used to try to tell me how to behave with T'Gatoi-how to be respectful and always obedient because T'Gatoi was the Tlic government official in charge of the Preserve, and thus the most important of her kind to deal directly with Terrans. T'Gatoi liked our body heat and took advantage of it whenever she could. I saw her turn away as several of T'Gatoi's limbs secured me closer. The third paragraph is: But my mother seemed content to age before she had to. “Bloodchild” has no chapters or sub-sections. NwhyteThese three all won Hugo and Nebula Awards presented in 1985 for work published in 1984.
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